The Grind Games Podcast
The Grind Games Podcast
PlayStation 5 May Get Native PS5 Support, Xbox Game Pass Price Hike, And Nintendo's Emio Horror Game?
Rob, Francis and Zero talk about how we might finally get to play Metal Gear Solid 4 on PS5 and after a few tangents we prepare for a horror showdown as we compare Resident Evil 7's survival terror to Resident Evil 8's action-packed thrills. With Koshi Nakanishi returning to direct Resident Evil 9, we speculate on the future direction of the series. As if that wasn't enough, we discuss the upcoming adaptation of "A Quiet Place" into a tense, first-person game, and the latest changes to Xbox Game Pass pricing. Whether you're into beat-em-ups or nostalgic gaming IPs, this episode has something for every gamer. Tune in for a rollercoaster of gaming insights and passionate discussions!
Hello and welcome back to the grind games. My name is Rob Garcia. I am your host. Sitting with me I have our good buddies Zero7 and Dino France Francis, what's up?
Speaker 1:Hey, how's it going? I'm good, good Been busy. Been busy, but you know, I'm here again.
Speaker 2:He said I've been, I'm here now. I was gone, I was in spirit the whole time.
Speaker 3:He just didn't see me.
Speaker 1:I was busy doing some stuff.
Speaker 2:So how's it been going, fellas, what you been doing lately? Zero, I know you've been on. What's the game? Elden Ring Dang, I forgot the game for a quick moment, for like a brief second yeah, it's the glory.
Speaker 1:It's the glory.
Speaker 3:I just started it, so I was just grinding up my runes so I could get a level 200 character. Now I got to figure out what build I'm going to go into, so I just started. So I've just been working and trying to play some games on the side.
Speaker 2:Did you even buy the dlc yet? Yeah, oh, you have it. That's why you haven't gotten jumped into it at all yet. No, I did all the prerequisites, just everything's done. You just ready to talk to the hand? That's it. Ready to kiss the hand and go to neverland? That's it so. So I feel like when you do, I should jump in there with you, be your Sherpa. But since I don't have it on PC, it's not going to be the seamless co-op. It'll be like oh, you're gone, okay, come back now.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're gone, All right come back now, which sucks, but it's still fun. It's still fun and Francis still fun.
Speaker 1:And uh, francis, you've, uh, you've been playing it, but uh, you, you've kind of not been, because it's so hard. Like I'm pushing it. At the very start I'm trying to push the game, but then you, just the game keeps getting harder, so you gotta push it, push it. I'm like, oh man, this is too hard, I think. But again, if I have the strength to push it, I'll push it, push it. I'm like, oh man, this is too hard, I think. But again, if I have the strength to push it, I'll push it again.
Speaker 2:But I'm halfway through, or probably 30, of the dlc you know I I looked at your map before you have other places that you should try to go to first, because you're probably at the spot that you need to have more of the Shattered True Fragments, for you have like seven and you're trying to be at like closer to where you're not supposed to be necessarily. You travel south, travel east, go up in different places. Yeah, you need to go and look around a bit.
Speaker 3:I feel like everybody did that, even in the original Elden Ring. I know we started off at Limgrave and then we went up in Caelan, that red place with all those demon dogs and stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you have to go south. That's how I played the game. I just ran through that whole yeah, go south, go south, yeah. But I think I went and got the first boss already and then after that I went just straight there to the the moon something I forgot the moon boss, lunaria, I forgot what. What?
Speaker 2:you're talking about in the non dlc. Oh, you mean the?
Speaker 1:the twin, the twin blade person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, that that lady's cool but and then rob, rob messages.
Speaker 1:Oh, I went up, maybe you should go there. Then I went there. I'm like, oh, this is easier yeah, you should.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's dlc is just it's. It's not the same, it's not, it's not bad. Oh, everybody I mean I know this is old news already. I'm sure everybody that was complaining about it pretty much beat it already. But everybody had their complaints saying I can't beat this game. It's too hard, it's it's, it's too much, it's too much this, too much that. But, come on, the game is it's made to be that you find those shadow tree fragments and then it'll get easier, and then you find your way and then you beat the game. You're supposed to be at like level 15 of the shadow true fragments to beat the game. I think I was level 14.
Speaker 2:I had a cheese, the end game. I mean I won't bring up anything about it. The only thing I'm gonna say is that when I got to that end game boss, I beat it. I was like all right, what else? Well, where do I go? Now? I'm looking around. This is no, it's it no credits, nothing. But I had to look up online. I had to look online to for it to tell me you know, that's it, you beat it, you're done. Oh, really, yeah, yeah, that was it.
Speaker 3:It doesn't really hold your hand for its story, you know.
Speaker 2:No, it, reading it does actually but it it doesn't really hold your hand for its story. You know? No, it does actually, but it just doesn't tell you that. Okay, that's the end. I thought there was going to be more there's no ending, no credits. Right, it's like no, that's it no, there's a little cut scene and then you're there and then you can go and do other stuff. So all I did was go and explore all the other parts of the dlc that I didn't yet.
Speaker 1:But it's, it's good, man, it's good I put like another 70 hours on there I think the story is basically like uh, those npcs telling you what happened and stuff like that and how did they end up there, or who actually, like you know?
Speaker 3:like probably the story is there, probably no no, the story the story is is all in the characters you meet and in all the item descriptions. Yeah, that's how you figure out the story in any really souls game. Yeah, every little piece of armor, every little piece of weapon, even like a mundane, like fodder, you know something to craft with whatever has. So you know, to the game the story to the story, to the story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I will say the DLC is a little bit more straightforward with it, but, yeah, it still has all that stuff that you're saying, and I'm not even going to be the person that's going to try to explain. Uh, yeah, so this is what. This is the lore about this and the lore of these people and all that you want. You want lord, go to body video. Go to those. There's a couple other people, there's I. I am not the right guy for that because I was confused on whether or not I even beat the game, so I definitely am not the guy for that.
Speaker 2:I play for the gameplay yeah, pretty much I beat it and you know I'll say there's only two bosses that were like real cheap one. The first one, francis, you're close to actually, so you'll be really kicking yourself with that one if you're having trouble getting over that bridge that you're in right now, and then the end game boss. That's it. The rest is fair the rest is fair.
Speaker 1:He said I'm having a hard time with just a normal monster on that bridge. And then all of a sudden he's like oh, you're gonna kick yourself after this, you'll see I can help you, I'll help you out, you'll see, though, you'll see it it's, it's hard.
Speaker 2:I mean, I could, you know, we'll leave it there. Yeah, I mean we'll leave it there because, because, uh, zero didn't even get into it yet, he hasn't started, he hasn't even kissed the hand yet he hasn't, you know, slapped hands with the hand yet you know, no, this is still with the hand. Yeah, he hasn't even seen the new dlc area yet. So he's gotta you, you know.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's not, that's not. I've seen people stream it. I've seen, like you know, is the story spoiled for me, for sure it is, but I'm still going to go take a crack at it. You know, does it matter? Not really, though. No, because I didn't do it, because it's it's. It's one of those games.
Speaker 2:You can watch it, but the flex is yeah, you can watch it and you cut out whatever no, what I was saying.
Speaker 2:What I was saying is it's one of those games you can flex is yeah, yeah, that's fine, but I, I get it, you can watch it and you. Whatever you do is going to be vastly different from what other people did, which I will say that I missed out on some stuff that should have kind of been there at the end of the game, and there are quests and stuff that you can cut yourself out of if you don't do it in the right order. And, uh, I happen to have done that. I think there was like one or two quests that I didn't get to finish, but it's okay, I still had fun, that's all that matters.
Speaker 1:You had fun? Yeah, I had fun, I had fun.
Speaker 2:So you know, before we get into all the game stuff, the game news. You guys remember Pepper Le Pew. I do that dude like basically the the creeper. Yeah, the rapist bro that you know, francis knows, and I think you know zero two. But we have ducks in the backyard, right. Yeah, like all these ducks, there's like three, two boys and then the others are female, so we have like another seven females. Bro, those ducks are way worse than what Pepper was Dude they are. I mean, it is, it is, they're mean, they're very mean.
Speaker 3:They run up to Because, like otters, are mean too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they run up to those females. They're like, hey, come here, come here, let's do it. No, no, I don't want to. It's like, yeah, no, it's bad, bro, you get plumas and feathers pulled out of their necks and everything.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, ducks are ducks are crazy when it comes to stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, but anyways, you're gonna. That's basically. Yeah, well, you're gonna, and they run away, and if they get to successfully run away for long enough, then they're free. If not, then well, you're gonna. Yeah, you're gonna, but let's get into it with the PS5. That might be getting backwards compatibility for PS3, or natively at least, because you know, before we were able to stream them for a while, which is not necessarily the best way, of course, but we may be getting native backwards compatibility for the ps3. There's only one game I think that we can all agree on. That needs to be. You know that. That needs to be used for I think we can all say it at once three, two, one metal gear, solid there you go Everybody.
Speaker 3:I would always say that too. Metal Gear 4.
Speaker 2:That's it. It's the only one that's like lost the time on that thing and because of how the PS3 is, you can't even run an emulator successfully well enough to run it at like, let's even say, 60 frames a second, you know, and I think they didn't.
Speaker 3:They do that on purpose to prevent like pirating or something like that, or they just like over engineered the shit out of the playstation 3 is what I hear.
Speaker 2:Probably that's what it was back in the day, they over engineered it. They had this cell processor processor that was made to be, you know, superior and made to be that it was made the games look great and the system run well, and all that which it did.
Speaker 2:But even back then, developers were like boy, it's hard to make a game on the ps3 I tell you what it's hard putting games over to that ps3, I tell you that, but they still did, man aside from the backwards compatibility being used for that. Uh, metal gear solid 4 is there any other game that was on that system? That really is worth it, because I feel like everything else, for the most part, many things. I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, things I'm not thinking about. There's a lot of those jrpgs, I'm sure, that are stuck on that system too, um, but I feel like metal gear solid 4 specifically, even as a rom, it's very hard to get running on a computer or on anything else. Mind you, I actually have a ps3 so I can run it, but like, do I really want to go pull that out? Also?
Speaker 2:I would if I had the means, I totally would yeah yeah, so I'm trying to find a modded one, a modded ps3, yeah those are super pricey so what do they have to do for these to be modded? You know, not for me, just for a friend. Oh, they gotta like.
Speaker 3:I don't know how it works, honestly, but I know they got some modded ones out there. I gotta look them up. I know what I really want is a modded Xbox OG Xbox why I mean you have access to, so why?
Speaker 2:that's what do you OG Xbox, yeah, but what do you play on there? Fable the original one yeah, but they have Fable on no that's the anniversary collection.
Speaker 3:I'm talking about the Lost Coast, I'm talking about the OG fable before the remake. Yeah, that game was tits bro.
Speaker 2:It was great, love it yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean I've.
Speaker 3:I had Otogi 1 and 2. Maybe not 2, but Otogi 2. I've heard of those. I've heard of those. Yeah, those are pretty good. Maybe some Steel Battalion, but I never met it. I've only played with the big controller. I never had it. The Duke no Steel Battalion was like a full rig.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's the one where you had.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, full rig. Oh yeah, that's the one where you have yeah, yeah, yes, you had the pedals, you had the um levers and stuff you had to like turn it on and shit. It was great. I got to sit in it one time and I was like this is hard.
Speaker 2:Every this looks like an actual cockpit. There's people in the army training with this thing. No, it was cool as hell. Though, yeah, no, I'm sure it was, but, um, I've never even seen that before. I've heard other people talk about it and it sounds awesome, but uh, yeah, that has to be like a couple hundred bucks just for the controller. Now oh, that yeah for sure can't you play that on a three?
Speaker 3:uh, the series s or x now, uh, I don't know, but I'm sure you can put it on a controller and call it a day, but you know, it's just not the point.
Speaker 2:Or even pc yeah, I'm sure you can find it maybe. Oh no, I'm gonna say yours. It doesn't compare for ps3, come on now. But that game, it's, it's, it's, I don't know, it's just it was so good and I think I really want metal gear solid 4 back, because at the last time you and I were talking about the story and all the different snakes, it really made me want to go through it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I have so my vita, it's, it's a, has a homebrew on it, you know, and I have all the old metal gear solid games, but of course I don't have a new system to play it on. That makes it easy. But on the vita you can put playstation one games on it and I have metal gear solid, the original on there. Metal gear solid 2 I have on pc and all that stuff, so I can do that one. I have the old metal gear solid 3 and delta is coming out soon, so that's even better. But 4. 4 is just the one that I won't be able to have access to have you ever played it like you had it right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I said I, I haven't.
Speaker 2:No, no, I haven't beaten it, I've gotten. I think I've only gotten up to the point where you're fighting that weird flying guy, is it? Hmm, he's like he's a little girl. Is it a girl? It's like it was this thing in a suit, like an armor type of thing the whole face face was covered flies around a little bit, if I'm remembering correctly, and shoots these little missiles. Was it the one with the hands, like the different, more than two hands you're talking about? Yeah, yeah, that one, all right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was. That was on the top of the tower and you got to fucking shoot it.
Speaker 2:It's not Mantis. Mantis was in a different game, right, but for some reason that's coming to my head. Yeah, it was probably something like that yeah, but they even had that one on the like the remember the mobile game that they had for that.
Speaker 2:Metal Gear Asset, like for the PSP no, no, no, there was like a phone mobile game that was of Metal Gear Solid 4. Then you would no, no, there was like a phone mobile game that was of Metal Gear Solid 4. Then you would just go around like it was like an Unreal type of game that you were shooting stuff. No, can't say. I've heard of that one. Yeah, you don't know. I think it was pretty much the same story as the Metal Gear Solid 4, but you would just do different things, that's it.
Speaker 3:Like do all the different fights?
Speaker 1:I mean to say what about you, francis? You got any experience with metal gear? Uh, just the first one, where they fought on top of the metal gear that is a good memory.
Speaker 3:That is a solid memory. It was a hard as hell fight, though yeah it is.
Speaker 1:That was my. I don't know that's the only one I actually played. And after that I told my brother he he just took the playstation 2 to 3 away from me he said no, you don't get to have.
Speaker 2:Is it? Is it me, or or did they? Was there a mention that there was going to be a Metal Gear movie at one point? Is that still going on?
Speaker 3:There's rumors and murmurs going around about a Metal Gear movie coming out. There are also some rumors about the OG Metal Gear, metal Gear Solid, getting remade too. That's what I heard. Yeah, so not only are they doing three, but they're also maybe considering doing one as a remaster, or something like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'd be awesome. And then if they can just even port number four over, then you have everything.
Speaker 3:Everything is up to date, kind of sort of Well we still have the Metal Gear Solid Collection 2 to come out. The first one is out. First one is all of the retro ones you got the ones from the you got the ones on the old console right. Yeah, the MSX.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the Nintendo ones too, those are the same ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, not the American Metal Gear games, because they're not, like, really canon, but the ones from Japan. Those are the canon ones for the actual story. So then you have Solid, you have Sons of Liberty, you have Snake Eater, and I think that's it.
Speaker 2:Well, not on this one. Yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I hope on the other ones we get like Metal Gear, like Acid, portable Ops you know, the ones for the PSP because I feel like a lot of people haven't played those and those are really good too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the PSP. But speaking of games that are coming in to be movies, I know we spoke about Elden Ring already, but even George RR Martin, he's teasing that Elden Ring is going to be made into either a movie or a show. No, no, no, no. I mean he had that. He put out that whole little statement saying don't ask me anything about an Elden Ring movie or show, I don't know anything. Nope.
Speaker 3:Maybe he's being a troll. I don't think he would be. No, I say no.
Speaker 2:It's funny. Everybody's like shut up, go finish that last. What's it called the last book? Yeah, there's been like six years already, but really. No, no. Elden Ring movie.
Speaker 1:No, elden Ring show. No, elden Ring show. No, it's not for show.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just play it. How about I play it and watch An anime? Not, or no, initially, I All forms no, yeah, see, I thought an anime would be cool, you know. Or even if you they show the story of before you start playing, because it's not ruined in the game, the deep lore, like the deep lore kind of yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1:But did you see, nier?
Speaker 2:Nier Automata? Yeah, that has an anime already, doesn't it yeah?
Speaker 1:I think it just released a couple days ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, yeah, I need to watch that, because that's another game I didn't play.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't play all the way. Yeah, I didn't play that, but it was. Uh, it was one part of final fantasy 14 that they made a story out of it, so I'm like, oh, I got interested.
Speaker 2:You know well, since you brought up final fantasy 14, have you, have you, have you gone back to it, the new DLC or expansion that they have?
Speaker 1:They had the four-day free login, I think before the Dawn Trail, but I just didn't get into it again. It's like a grind again you know, yeah, like maximizing every uh jobs and what whatnot. It's just so so much of a you know repetitive that you have to grind this uh part of the arm more again and then after that, in a couple months, there's going to be new one that's going to be like more efficient or higher eye level. So I'm like, no, I'm not gonna waste my time anymore I know your gaming clock on that final fantasy more.
Speaker 2:Uh 14 must be like I don't know how, by days, not even by hours anymore, right?
Speaker 1:no, but it's by days now probably one month yeah, most likely, or more, probably more. Yeah, because I grinded all the relics like and it's not just one relic, it's a lot of relic per job, so I'm like I got burnt out. You know, if I got, if, if I was crazy on elden ring, I I was crazier on FFXIV before, but then I just, I don't know, I think I'm getting old.
Speaker 2:It's hard to sit there and do that. I remember the craziest thing I saw, I think, on Final Fantasy XI my brother Angel his clock At one point he wasn't even done with the game, he was still doing stuff all the time. It was 120-something days time. It was 120 something days, Days, that was the time clock days. I was like holy shit.
Speaker 3:Your brother took me down a Final Fantasy hole. Now, when I grinded up a black mage all the way to like level, like 65 in the course of like three weeks, he's like yeah, you got to finish main story Shit, he's always on there, so you got it.
Speaker 2:Fini. Finish all In the course of like three weeks. Yeah, you got to finish main story. Shit, he's always on there. You got it. Finish all the main story. Finish all the main story, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2:Yep, the main story in that game is it's supposed to be really good the first, the first, I guess I should say the main game of realm reborn. They say that that one is um. They say that that one is um. Not the best game, but rather not the best story. But once you beat that, then it gets really good. Is that true? Because you went through most of it, right, francis?
Speaker 1:yeah, everything I went through. It's just, it's not. It's everything's the same, it's just all the all, the all, the everything.
Speaker 2:Like I saw how how they explain this, like it's all repetitive, it's all repetitive, very repetitive yeah, they supposedly had sped everything up before to make it easier for you to level up and get through everything, so you don't get locked out of the main quest. Because I remember originally when it came out, if you just tried to main path it and do the main quest, you would get locked out because your level wasn't going up fast enough to just continue through the main quest. So now at least it does, but you still have to go through all the main quests, which is long, long game yeah, the main quest actually.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you still have to do that, because I mean, I mean, as you're doing the main quest, you're not going to finish that in a day, but every day has its own daily where you can level up. Yeah, so, basically, the basically the dailies will push through your level so that you can actually just play smoothly. Yeah, yeah, that just happened. Uh, that just happened, uh, like recently, probably the last, uh, the last, uh, I think. Heaven's war no, not heaven's word, but after that I forgot what it is. But after the Heavensward, they just do that.
Speaker 2:They were like no, it's fine, yeah, but not to have gotten off on a tangent. Shadowbringer. That's the one Shadowbringer. Yeah, I didn't mean to go off on a whole tangent, but we can bring this back to another game that you both have played resident evil 7 and 8, right?
Speaker 1:no, yes, so, francis, no. I remember one of our podcasts. You were telling me maybe you should play all the resident evil. I'm like you know what. Okay, I'll try to play it, since I do have the ultimate. And then lice of p came out and it just got all my attention.
Speaker 2:That's it I mean lives of p was good, but you know, I mean resident evil is resident resident evil. You can come play it in vr if you want.
Speaker 1:I have it for seven and uh and eight no, no, it's gonna you don't want to throw up yeah, yeah, I did try the the horizon. I was like I was, I got really yeah, I got really sick, I was gonna throw up, you get that motion sickness with vr.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so you zero have played seven and eight. I know I feel like it wasn't. You didn't like eight. That much is that what it was.
Speaker 3:I forget um I didn't mind a. A it was, like you know, arcadey. Everybody was compared to four until four came out and everybody's like four is four.
Speaker 3:So, um, I didn't mind it what were your feelings in seven on seven I felt like there was more survival horror, yeah, whereas a village was like arcadey, running around, you know, shoot, think later, you know, and this one is like you can either sneak in the old one you can seek away. It was the setting, the story. You know, the fucking, the mitochondria, whatever the fuck they call it, the mega, mega, my soul, whatever it is mega, whatever the fuck they call it, megamysol, whatever it is, metamucil, metamucil, whatever they call it. So the story was good.
Speaker 2:So, it sounds like you prefer 7?.
Speaker 3:I do. Story-wise I do. But if I want action balls to the walls, I go for 8. And that with Ethan Winters, that protagonist.
Speaker 2:Well then, I guess halfway I have good news for you, because the director of Resident Evil 7, koshi Nakanishi, he's supposed to be the director for the officially confirmed by him, resident Evil 9. So that may be going back to the horror aspect of it, and I don't know. So Resident Evil 9 can go in a whole bunch of different ways. I know a lot of people are like please don't bring back the Winters. I don't want to see the daughter, I don't care about her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think the Winters is done. I think that little story subject should be done. I think we need to. Maybe I I'm gonna make a hot take maybe bring back wesker and, uh, just stir some shit up. Good old-fashioned survival horror. I want to. I want to do that again. I want to bring it back to the really scary psychological little.
Speaker 2:Less running and gunning, more like methodical, you know so what if I told you that it's supposedly based on rumors, that it's supposed to be an open world game, of course built? Off the engine.
Speaker 3:Damn it. There goes that, open world, there goes that.
Speaker 1:Everything's open world nowadays.
Speaker 3:All right, we'll make it into an MMO. You might get me back.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean maybe, yeah, that would be cool if you're all running around, Because Raccoon City is done. Of course, that one is like blown up right.
Speaker 3:What's that game that's out right now? That's kind of like that, like Apocalypse Too. Human Not.
Speaker 2:Too Human, yeah Human Once. Human Once Human, yeah Once.
Speaker 1:Human.
Speaker 2:I haven't even tried that. Have you guys tried that at all? No, I haven't tried it.
Speaker 3:I'm curious though.
Speaker 2:It's free to. Why am I downloading?
Speaker 3:this right now because we're podcasting. No fine, later after then. Geez, I can actually do it. I have the internet to do it, so let me go check it out but so the well.
Speaker 2:Once human it's, it is survival horror. It's a builder type of thing too, like a base builder also, that you're doing a bit of right yeah, I heard it's more mmos with fleckles of uh survival you know, I think it's mmo right, isn't it mmo?
Speaker 2:yes, so then if a resident evil 7 or 9, rather, is supposed to be an open world game, what would you? Because even you, francis, you've played resident evil games before you. You know what they're about, you know what it is right, what, yeah, well, there you go. That's basically one of them. Yeah, uh, what would you guys want from resident evil 9? Like, who do you want chris to come back? Leon, who would you want the main protagonist? I guess we should start there um, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Do we continue on or do we do something completely new? Do we introduce a new character to the universe?
Speaker 1:yeah, that could, if it's okay, if it's gonna become an MMO, it's. They're gonna lose all the character, I mean all. Probably the previous character will be there. It has its own separate story or quest line. You know, I think that's what's gonna happen if the if it's an mmo for sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, so I gotta go to chris to get this quest real quick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you know I don't want that, the more that you guys are talking about that sounds.
Speaker 3:that sounds horrible, doesn't it? Yeah, well, m MMO, isn't it?
Speaker 1:like FFXIV, like FF7's there, ff8's there, like every Final Fantasy is there already.
Speaker 2:so no see, I don't want that to be in the Resident Evil, because Resident Evil is supposed to be a lot of horror, survival, a lot of action, kind of thing like that. I think in an MMO you're going to lose a lot of action, kind of thing like that. I think in an mmo you're going to lose a lot of that open world. I think can work as much as you're against it. Because look at elden ring right, if you take the same format for elden ring, other ring is an open world right. Other, when you start out in the game you're out in the open lame grave area and you can. You see the, what is it? The, the tree sentinel guy right there and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:The same kind of idea, say you bring to resident evil 9. You're in a certain city, maybe something that's not raccoon city, but obviously the virus spreads somewhere. New, every game right. And you go to this certain area that is open world. You're going through the city, you're going through whatever, and say you enter a huge mansion. Now that mansion area becomes kind of like the bespoke uh setting that are you one like re1, exactly right, and you have the same thing within that area and then it.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's shorter, maybe you cut out that whole sub-level where you go into the lab and the sharks and stuff, which I always thought were stupid because they always add that on for fluff at the end and instead of that you finish that, you continue somewhere else and it becomes a bespoke area, even like Resident Evil 2 and 3, that was in the city. It took place a lot with the cop place, the rcpd, whatever. So they have those certain areas. So it's kind of like putting together all those areas in one town or village kind of thing. Even number eight village, village, uh, resident evil village kind of sort of had that open area. If they're just going to expand that and make it something bigger, I think it would be cool expand that and make it something bigger, I think it would be cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't sound too bad when you say it like that, but but still, I don't know. I was kind of hoping for like back back to form. You know. Return to form, yeah, without the, without the tech controls, obviously, but like a more psychological horror based, you know kind of like silent hill.
Speaker 1:I think kind of like silent hill, which one?
Speaker 2:both of them are good, so yeah, yeah, I mean they can still do it. I think it can still happen. You know you're going to be low on supplies. Um, in certain areas, you know, yeah, you're going to struggle. I mean they always do the same thing. You, you're you. They make you know you're going to struggle. I mean they always do the same thing. You, you're you. They make you feel like you're low on supplies, but they always give you just enough to beat whatever you need to be to make it through Right, just to make it through just to make it through every boss fight, at least now that they've always been doing you always find everything you need to win the fight within that fight.
Speaker 2:You know you got that, or just a minute before.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly. Oh look a room full of herbs, a room full of bullets. I wonder what's going to happen. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:It's about to go down.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like well, I'm about to get my shit pushed in, so I will get all this stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, basically yeah. So it's good, good, I'm looking forward to it so what about you, francis?
Speaker 3:any other metal gear? Uh, resident evil experiences, no right uh until uh, until nemesis only.
Speaker 1:But that was fun, I had fun, but then I got busy, I think. I think, yeah, I got busy with college at that time. I think I was college and then, all of a sudden, after college, we migrated to canada.
Speaker 3:So that's what it, what happened no, that's from resident evil to migrating from canada well, I was also gonna say like I I really wish silent hill the first one would get a remake or a remaster first one. Yeah, because I'm not happy with the way two looks looking right now. I'm like I saw the last trailer for I was like what is this? No, it doesn't look in game. What's going?
Speaker 2:on right now. I mean, when you put them side by side comparison, it does look better, but I don't know if it looks better in the best ways if that makes sense. Like it looks a little too clean, it loses some of the griminess that the old game had a bit, and it still doesn't look like a current generation game either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it doesn't. It's like I feel like they changed a lot of the art style from, uh, the original game, especially in two, you know. But I don't know. I guess I have to take that one with a grain of salt, because what I'm looking at right now it's just not, not too, it's not. It's not getting me like, oh, I gotta get this game as soon as it drops, you know, but I really wish they would like remake the first one, at least that'd be.
Speaker 1:I mean, I still have a lot of game on my plate like uh, that edin ring ff7 remake. Uh, right now withering waves. Uh, finishing the season I forgot what season of Diablo, but I'm not finished with that yet before the expansion comes. You know, I think the expansion is coming, what like next month or next two months. Are you guys like looking into that?
Speaker 3:Well, I don't know, I tried playing Diablo because Xbox now has it on the gamepad, so let me try this game. I played it for like five minutes. I turned that shit off.
Speaker 2:You never played it before.
Speaker 3:No, not until five minutes. I played it on the Game Pass.
Speaker 2:Really, why did I think that you had it off? I mean, francis is like deep into it. I beat the game. It's actually fun.
Speaker 3:No three was the last one I had the most fun in. I don't know everybody hates three, but I had fun on three. Yeah it was fun. Yeah, the bosses were fun too. Um, but four is better than three.
Speaker 3:I will say I, I hear that too. I try to. You know what it is. I gotta give it a one more. The good old college try again. You know, just get in there, because I tried necromancer. I always like a body corpse exploding necromancer. I feel like, yes, I love it. You know, I sit there, I'll absorb it and then then make a computer freeze glass cannon.
Speaker 1:I think that's necromancer right now Glass cannon, unless it's a different build.
Speaker 2:Yeah, necromancer still does that because he still summons all this stuff. But yeah, you know. So I I feel like we should try and do diablo 4 together. If you're going to try it again one more time, if the misadventures, yep, if I'm not going to jump in and help francis get through the dlc, if he's not going to do that. I know he's always like, yeah, yeah, let's do some Diablo, it's fine, I love that game.
Speaker 1:I can maximize the level right away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know you can, but you're not going to do that if we play with zero no, I'm not going to do that you're sitting there throwing out 50 different spells and he's got the attack attack yeah if he's using the X X there.
Speaker 3:No, I'll probably just be mashing on the one.
Speaker 1:Yeah just holding on it he's gonna be like oh, this is boring, like this is too overpowered, I mean I gotta look.
Speaker 3:I think I made a, was it? I tried a necromancer, that I made a mage, I don't know. I gotta look. I gotta look back at the account, because they give you an xbox account for your character on on whatever it is, on blizzard. I was hoping they throw wow on the game pass. I'd have been like, oh man, yeah, I wanted them to do that too, I would have tried that.
Speaker 2:Nah well, I don't. I don't think wow was included. No, yeah, they didn't, because they would have done that right away. Oh, hell yeah.
Speaker 3:They got.
Speaker 2:Hearthstone. I think I mean, come on, who wants Hearthstone? Yeah? And you want that on mobile. You don't want to play that on the computer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, not on the computer right now.
Speaker 3:I've seen people play it both. I tried a little bit of it. I was like I can't do this. It's like a watered down.
Speaker 1:magic, yeah, magic, the gathering.
Speaker 2:So what I've been told is that game that whenever they release the new pack, you need to either buy it and get all that stuff right away, or you're just not going to be able to compete. Yeah, you won't be able to compete. So yeah, I did hear that too.
Speaker 3:So I'm so. Yeah, I did hear that too, so I'm not trying to do pay to win. Sorry, yeah, I was just gonna say you probably have to do it that way to make money. It's like season one cards. All right, here you go, here we go all obsolete.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, if you're not interested in resident evil being an open world, let me tell you about another game. This is the reverse. So this is not a a game that's turning into a movie, but a movie that's turning into a game. Have you heard of a quiet place? There was one and two, and those movies were great. I love those movies. I think the first one was um, oh man, I forgot, but it's the the wife. The husband directed it and he acted in it. He died and then his wife was in it oh man, I forgot that. I forget the couple. But anyways, that game, or rather movie, is being turned into a game. We got a quiet place the road ahead. It's a first person, single player game and you play as this kid named alex, who's an asthmatic college student, which doesn't sound like a big deal.
Speaker 3:I didn't hear the word asthmatic.
Speaker 2:No, and if you know a quiet place in that movie, if you make any noise you're dead, Like these things are going to come out and kill you. Which is this big alien like lanky arm Feature thing?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it looks like a deer with longer limbs. Yeah, but you're an asthmatic character, so you're going to be coughing up a storm at some point, or if you run too fast, right? Imagine?
Speaker 2:Have you guys seen the trailer at all?
Speaker 1:I've never seen the trailer, but I've watched the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so in the trailer we'll just run it through a little bit. Basically there's two different trailers. They have the one. It's talking, um, or rather starting from day one of the invasion of the, the aliens, because if you know the movies, it basically starts off from the beginning where they're kind of living life normally and then all of a sudden things come crashing down and then all of a sudden it does a jump cut to the future where they're living in that world. And after that jump cut you see the main characters. You know they're not wearing shoes because they don't want to make noise. When they're stepping in different places they're being extra quiet. They know how to survive, essentially, right.
Speaker 2:So in this game it's basically taking place from day one and that's where you're going to get through and, uh, you know, go through the game with and you see the character alex um going through different areas and she's trying to be quiet and all of a sudden she steps into something and then you see one of the big aliens just come crashing through a window thing, and then you see one of the big aliens just come crashing through a window and basically, once that happens, she's, you know, going away because it it hears something else and it goes after that instead. So she's safe. But now she's all panicked and she starts having the asthma attack and you don't know it is that until she pulls out her inhaler and she's just. You know, that's how you see that she has that and it's like.
Speaker 1:It's like when you watch a movie, you feel that you I mean when you watch a movie you're like, oh, like you, you panic, but then if you play, it's like you're there already, like, oh, I should be quiet, you know, when you're controlling your character. I think that experience is on a whole other level, but I'm excited for it, if ever. But do you with? Do you know which console it's going to be out like?
Speaker 2:of course it's going to be everything yeah, everything, current gen pc and everything. I mean definitely not the switch, one, at least, maybe the two, because we already know that they're. They pretty much already said yeah, we're next year, next year, 2025. You know. They've all but confirmed that it's coming out at that point. Um, yeah, no, this summer, summer, yeah. So if you're not into the open world, resident evil 9 is this more striking your fancy? You know, acquire place. You know what it's about that turning into a game. What are your thoughts? Zero.
Speaker 3:Well, we'll see, because Capcom and Resident Evil, we know what the chops are. Who's a developer of this one?
Speaker 2:Do you know that one? I do not. Let me, I can find out why you're getting through your thought there.
Speaker 3:So I mean it there. So I mean it really depends on, like, the quality and the story that they give us. You know, everybody has potential of doing good. We'll see what happens with this one. When you look at resident evil, though, you know that's a tried and true, that is a brand product so so true product.
Speaker 2:You know this is a store. Mind games is what this is. And let's, if we go through the games, uh, what's their pedigree? I'll stop when I see one that I know there's a boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2:I don't know any of these, okay there's three other games besides besides the choir place there's a batora, lost haven, remothered, broken porcelain and remothered, tormented fathers. I will say revenge. Yeah, I will say these all look like um, well, the both remothered ones, they look like horror games. So yeah, at least this is not their first foray into the horror genre and they've done sci-fi which but horror. It looks to be a sci-fi game. It was more rpg. It says. But yeah it this one. It looked great. If you see the, the, the trailer, it actually does look very good. So it's one that I'll keep my eye on. I'm interested to see what's gonna come of it because I'll give it a chance. The movies were great, wasn't like they do? They have a date already. They don't have a date necessarily yet.
Speaker 3:No, it's going to be day one on Game Pass though.
Speaker 2:Is it Probably? Oh no, like I would have put that down, I would have said but why are you lying to me? No, I'm just saying because everything's going to be on Game Pass. I mean the way that they're doing things.
Speaker 3:Everybody right now is complaining that it went up by like $4.
Speaker 2:So late 2024 is the thing. But since you brought that up, I think it's a great segue into the next topic with Xbox. As you said, they're giving Game Pass a price hike. So if you already have Game Pass, this is a very confusing structure for Game Pass.
Speaker 3:I'm not All right and I think that's where everybody's pissed off is the way they structured it, Not so much the price hike, but what they're doing. They're like assholes yeah.
Speaker 2:So they already have a Game Pass core. They have Game Pass Standard, game Pass Ultimate and all that right and Cloud Gaming. Before it was basically you just have the Standard Game Pass or Game Pass Ultimate and then you could have yeah, and you would have PC Game Pass, which you would still get to do. You didn't get to do Cloud Gaming with that. But before all of the Game Pass, if you had access to Game pass, it meant that you got access to all of the games that they put there on day one. You had access to it.
Speaker 2:They're changing that now, so that's a premium. Yep, they're making them more expensive now. It's like 20 bucks or something like that. I'll get the pricing structure down once you guys are getting in your thoughts. But it's like the standard one. It doesn't give you the day one stuff. You still get the catalog of games, but it doesn't give you the day one stuff. You have to have Game Pass Ultimate to actually have access to day one games. And I believe PC Game Pass still does give you access to day one games. Yeah, so I'm confused with it.
Speaker 3:I have the ultimate with PC, like that's the one I pay for. Same here, because you know I play mostly the PC side of things. Every now and again, if I really need to like stream a game, I have the Xbox One Because I can cloud game, I can go plug in anbox controller and play through a cloud. But I don't think it's good. Like playstation's cloud gaming. Like you can playstation and stream a ps3 game and it looks good, it's crispy. I can't even stream like that. But now with xbox xbox when you go to the cloud gaming part, there's like like crazy latency at least for me anyway, this is my experience Crazy latency and like the picture. Like you know, when you get that like pixelated loading stuff and I have a pretty decent internet, I thought I could run it. Sometimes it just play right.
Speaker 2:So I'll say my experience is similar-ish to yours. Oddly enough it's just playwright. So, but I'll say my experience is similarish to yours. Oddly enough it's the same. I I play uh remote play on ps5 on my um either pc or on my um ipad, and I either will connect works, yeah, the dual shock or the dual sense directly to it with the wire or via Bluetooth on the iPad, because it has native support, works great, almost no latency issues with it. You notice it slightly, but it was enough for me to play Elden Ring on Game Pass xCloud.
Speaker 2:I will say my experience is a little bit better than yours. I do see the fragmentation a good amount. I do see sometimes it does have the um, the latency issues, but not as bad as yours. I'm still able to play games on there, uh, pretty decently, but, um, yeah, definitely not as good as um as a remote play in my experience. But have you seen this? So on xCloud you can actually play games with touchscreen. Now, and I'm not talking about this is the A button, this is that button, actual touchscreen, like as if it was made for mobile. So there's the xCloud has a little to the left, it's like one of those little puzzle games and all you do is touchscreen it, move things around, touch it it, and I was like, oh, this is great, they're getting ready for mobile, is what I'm thinking I think everything is like even like was it resident evil is trying to be pushed hard into, like the phone, like I really didn't.
Speaker 2:That doesn't sit with me right. Yeah, they got village and uh, was it resident evil 4? They got assassin's creed the new ones one of the new ones coming out and they're pushing it hard too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like I'm not understanding why such a big push, for, like I mean I get it, whatever, but like, yeah, you know why but, but also, francis, you um, you use uh remote play a lot.
Speaker 2:You've used it on a lot of different devices too, so I want to hear your experience with it, and did you ever use xCloud?
Speaker 1:xCloud. I'm not too sure about that because I've only done it once with Lysop. I think that's what it is like for the Xbox.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the cloud gaming. Yeah, the cloud gaming, I think right, gaming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, the cloud gaming. Um, it's, it's okay, but I got I got, like you know, when you play on different devices but then your c file messes up kind of so like, oh, load the latest one and load the you know, like it did mess up a little bit. So I'm like you know, I'm just gonna stay on one device, which is the rog ally. Um, it was okay and I have an experience because it's I mean, the rog is powerful enough to to power it. Uh, playstation remote play. I'm everywhere with playstation remote play, rog ally, ipad, depending on what's there or what I feel. Sometimes I just feel like holding a ps5 controller, or I just want to be on my pc, or if I'm really not at home which what happened to me like a couple months ago um, it's always on rg, but you can always connect your controller yeah, and how does it feel?
Speaker 2:does it feel latency is good, or?
Speaker 1:latency. Uh, I don't have any problem with with. Uh, yes, remote play literally nothing you don't feel it at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah no, nothing it might that that company they bought. I even forgot the name of it now because it was like seven years ago that they bought this company. Uh, it's uh, that was focused on cloud gaming. I forgot what it was called. Sony bought them, but yeah, that's when they were making that push seems to be paying off because they're doing really well so far.
Speaker 2:I know other people. I feel like I've heard other stories where it's the other way around, for people where, yeah, x cloud is great, it works great, and then remote play is not working out that great. I will say when I used the ps portal, the official playstation device, it the experience on playstation portal was not as good as me doing remote play on my ipad. It's so weird, isn't it? Go figure it. The remote play is play on my iPad. It's so weird, isn't it? Go figure. The remote play is better on my iPad with the DualSense than it is on the official PlayStation Portal device because it would drop the Wi-Fi for some weird reason, I think it's because the Portal doesn't have a Wi-Fi 6 like your iPad, like the Wi-Fi chip is.
Speaker 1:the wi-fi card is probably yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not as good as the, as the ipad, yeah, because, yeah, it's the ipad, yeah yeah, and can I going back to the um game pass a whole situation?
Speaker 2:can I? Can I read you guys? It's a. It's a little excerpt from game rant, going over the details. It puts it much more eloquently than I can right now. So Xbox Game Pass Core will remain at $10 per month, but its annual price is increasing to $75. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is increasing from $16.99 to $19.99 per month. The PC Game Pass will be increasing from $9.99 to $11.99 each month. Another key change coming is the addition of a new tier for Game Pass and the removal of Xbox Game Pass Console, officially called Xbox Game Pass Standard. This new tier will cost $14.99 per month and will grant players the full Game Pass library but will not include day one releases. Instead, first party Xbox games will arrive at. The standard tier will be chosen on a case-by-case basis, likely between 6 to 12 months and sometimes even longer. End quote.
Speaker 2:Oh, so they'll leave it out for a whole year if they feel like it Possibly, so it's like you don't got another two dollars to put up blah, fuck you oh, that's, that's.
Speaker 3:Oh, my god really. Oh, that's rude, you know, you know, the crazy thing is that used to be the best gaming deal out there. It's starting not to be yeah, it's starting to be no, it's starting to be just like the rest of them, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's starting not to be the best out there. No, it's just another one, it's another one. Yeah, people are like, what about Gamefly? Gamefly is good, that's dead. Gamefly is dead, it's still out there. But listen, I have Game Pass Ultimate for myself and I also have Game pass ultimate for my daughter, because sometimes I want to play stuff with her too. So now this is going up from 1799 to 1999 for both of us. I'm still waiting for that game pass, uh family plan that they were supposed to have forever ago, or rather, other places have had access to right.
Speaker 2:When is that coming?
Speaker 1:well like is it like you can create other profile or yeah, you're gonna have one head account and like you can create?
Speaker 3:other profile. Yeah, you can have one head account and then you can make it a family account.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Isn't that what they're doing on everything right now, Like Netflix, Crunchyroll everything?
Speaker 2:A lot of things have it. Yeah. So, like Nintendo has the family plan, we buy that and we have people on there that get to use it and it's great. I want that for this because how easily would it be? All right, we, just all three of us go in. It's fine If it's $20, $30 a month. Even that's still worth it If you get ultimate. Come on now you go in with two people. You've already saved money. Yeah, right, yeah, I would love to have that. Let five people on it.
Speaker 3:That'd be awesome, but companies don't want us to save money, rob. No, they don't. They want us to spend it on their products but they did say they did say they get it anyway. Fuck, make it worth my while, at least fuck boys, shit, I know you gotta work one extra hour per month.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they supposedly are working on a family plan, but I don't know, maybe they're like no, no, we're losing too much money. And you know why they were saying that they were going, uh, kind of toying around with the family plan idea. That was said before the activision deal went through and then all of a sudden they stopped.
Speaker 3:It went out the window.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like no, we got Call of Duty coming in. They're going to buy it. They'll get the Game Pass. Come on now. And now that it's coming in what three months? Because the fall is coming right by November that new Call of Duty game will be here. I know it has an official release date.
Speaker 3:I just don't know what it is, but by November it'll be here right. So day one on game pass ultimate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, day one on game pass ultimate. So that means Francis is gonna buy it.
Speaker 3:It's day one, it's also like 3000 fucking petabytes to fucking download and shit. No, it's like, was it 300 gigs? This game, jesus Christ? Why?
Speaker 2:I will say they've gotten better at doing that, because now they don't just install everything. It says what do you want to install?
Speaker 3:And all I ever Just the game, just the multiplayer, just the story. Yeah, just the story. And then after that, and then boom.
Speaker 2:Forget the story.
Speaker 3:Multiplayer. You don't play the. Nobody ever plays the story anymore.
Speaker 2:No, I never have played a Call of Duty story in my life. What have played a Call of Duty story in my life? What I don't care. I just want to go on there and go pew pew.
Speaker 3:I've played the stories. On every single one I've played, I've played the story.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nope, I go on there and go pew, pew, pew, pew, that's it, die respawn, die respawn. Can I tell you my minor shame that I have recently my friend? He's in florida, he's always playing call of duty, the multiplayer, not warzone, and he's like come on, play, play, play. So I went and played with him and you, you know, you load up, you start it up and first things it does is hey, check out what you find on the game store. You could buy this. This is whatever. This is 10 bucks, this is 5, this is 20, this is 30. They never get me with anything. I look at all that stuff. I'm like I don't care, I don't want this. They got me this time, they got me for 20, they got me for 20 because they had a they had an operator for a gundam from the uh, the mercury we Gundam the Gundam operator.
Speaker 1:He bought that, you bought that.
Speaker 2:I bought the one from the, the witch, from Mercury one. So I have that one aerial and uh, which is not aerial like the, like the mermaid aerial, but aerial as in sky. But uh, yeah, no, they got me for $20 and I was like no, as I'm doing the button, like I shouldn't be doing this, no, and then they got me, yep they got me even dunes.
Speaker 1:They have, like, uh, a lot, a lot man, a lot of operator skins. Yeah, they have it recently even diablo. They have the diablo lilith and uh, I forgot what the archangel is, but the archangel they do have, oh yeah, they did have them too.
Speaker 2:You want to know the craziest part about it that I didn't know until I went through it. I bought this skin. It was $20 for the whole pack. You get the skin gun, all this other nonsense, right? Whatever, bro, I did not know that it was directly tied to a specific operator. It was just a skin on it. Yeah, but it makes sense. But it only means that I can use that skin if I'm playing that side, that's right. So I got into. I mean no, why am I a regular guy? Why am I a regular?
Speaker 1:thing, what's going on?
Speaker 2:I went into it and I looked the operators on that other side, the enemy side or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:But you gotta buy the other gundam again.
Speaker 2:So I want ariel. I don't. I like the original gundam, but that's not the one. I'm gonna want to go running around this.
Speaker 1:That ain't that, no, the thing is like yeah, the thing is like warzone, you don't, it's, it doesn't matter, because you're just playing that skin?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I'm not playing Warzone all the time. I barely play Warzone. I know Zero. You play Warzone too, don't you?
Speaker 3:Not as much as I play Gun Game. That's my favorite multiplayer. Yeah, Gun Game that's my shit, I love Gun.
Speaker 2:Game. I love it, Love it love, it love it, I'll be down to play some tonight.
Speaker 1:What is Gun Game?
Speaker 2:Gun Game with every kill you get. Every kill you get.
Speaker 3:Every kill you get you change a weapon. I have no idea what's wrong with myself.
Speaker 1:That's hard. Every kill you get you change a weapon.
Speaker 3:That's really hard. It's fun as shit, though it is very fun.
Speaker 1:You gotta know how to use every weapon, then well, there you go.
Speaker 3:Jack of all trades, my friend and you know what the funny thing is like. Because I play so much gun game I know how to like shoot almost every gun I get in warzone yeah, you know I okay, I switched from keyboard to controller on the.
Speaker 1:It took me like probably a couple months two months to actually get a good grip off the controller if you're gonna do this, you gotta tell him the whole story.
Speaker 2:He said I switched from PC to controller. No, he didn't. He switched from PC to controller after yeah, keyboard and mouse to controller. After he went and fully modded his little dual master controller. After he went and fully modded his little uh pieces and broke it open and did all this mod into it. Yeah, that's the one that he's holding up right there.
Speaker 1:No, this is the edge, now that one is just sitting, that one is just sitting. This is the ps4 controller, which has a back button. This is the dual sense edge, um which, by the way, so yeah, go get the other one because.
Speaker 2:So, by the way he modded the controller, he bought all the things to buy and I said, okay, how much was all this stuff? The dual sense is what? 79.99 or whatever it is.
Speaker 3:Then he bought all the pieces that was like 150 bucks just for the control no, no, just the regular dual sense.
Speaker 2:So then he bought all the pieces to mod it and not you know, and I said, how much is all this? And I was like, why don't you just buy a dual sense edge? And he's like, no, no, so he modded this controller. He's holding up that. Obviously the listeners can't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a clicky part to it, Like everything's clicky like when you're pressing a mouse.
Speaker 2:A mouse when you're pressing a mouse, a mouse. So everything is close. Get some ASMR going, get in there, get in there.
Speaker 1:No, this guy has what?
Speaker 2:do you call that Filter? There you go, there you go. So he did that after he spent the money to mod a regular DualSense controller and after I told him, why don't you just buy it instead of doing it? No, no, I'm going to mod it. And then he bought the DualSense Edge anyways. Might as well yeah.
Speaker 3:Might as well. So that's what he's doing.
Speaker 2:You got to give something to player two.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's what he's doing now with that.
Speaker 1:My bad now with that, my bad, I didn't mean to cut off your whole story, but yeah, I mean no, like two months of suffering and I don't get every like I'm just using ar. That's pretty much it. Like when I go sniper oh man, it's different. It's different especially on call of duty. You know aim assist, that actually helps a little bit too. You know the uh aim assist. But you know it's fun, like switching to from pc I mean mouse and keyboard to controller, because it's kind of like a new game again, like, like it's a different movement at the same time, like and. But because, uh, when you're using mouse and keyboard, it's like you're working, like you have to drag your mouse and press a lot of keys. You know, like it's like a workout.
Speaker 3:That's when you're using the controller yeah, I'm gonna say this is this, is this, I finally, after like a long time of like, like because I've been always wanting to use, uh, you know, mouse and keyboard for my first person shooter yeah, he just felt better. So now that I'm finally, I'm at no professional level, but I'm at a comfort, but I like you as my prefer, as my preferred way to play first person shooter mouse and keyboard is what you like doing now yeah, especially now that I've taken a long time to work on it, play it and shit like that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I like mouse and keyboard too. I hated it before and I hated learning, but now that I do, I'm sitting there like they say clicking heads Get that little pew-pew real quick. Pew-pew, Pew-pew. I'm actually pretty nice on it sometimes. Real quick Pew, pew, pew, pew. I'm actually pretty nice on it sometimes.
Speaker 1:Sometimes Other times I suck, but I know a lot of garbage but I like using it. I know a lot of people like switching from keyboard to controller because of the aim assist. It's broken on Warzone.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I heard the thing too.
Speaker 1:It's broken, like literally broken on Call of Duty Probably multiplayer too. It's really broken.
Speaker 2:That's why I kind of switched to controller, but then I'm still like, I feel like I'm still a new when it comes to controller meanwhile that back in my day I was playing modern warfare 2 on the xbox 360, getting like two chopper gunners each game, killing those people. Man, those were the days. I can't even get one now. Can't even get one now. I don't even get halfway there no, not even halfway no sorry, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, uh, can we bring it back to the horror stuff? So we talked about an open world horror game. We talked about a quiet place horror game. Can we talk about that nintendo horror game that they've been teasing? Have you guys seen it? It's called emio. So there's. It's a short teaser that a couple of days ago, nintendo put out a video. Uh, I don't even know if it's being developed by them, if it's being developed by another studio. They didn't say anything, but the game, yeah, m-e-o-e-m-i-o. All they did was put up a short trailer about this game and the short trailer that they put up, the teaser, was just a guy standing with a paper bag and a smiley face on it. It's a rated M for Mature game.
Speaker 3:That's going to be a horror game on the nintendo switch so about time they gave yourself something other than you know family friendly.
Speaker 2:This is this is the first time, I'm not mistaken right, this is the first time that nintendo is necessarily pushing the marketing for a horror game, right, like fatal frame and, you know, resident evil. They've been on there, but the way that they're pushing it is either that they're publishing this game or they develop in the game first party. You know like it really seems like they're going to have a lot to do with this.
Speaker 3:I don't know, but it's good to see them like branch out and do something different to attract, you know, a different audience, or at least give their existing audience a little bit of uh, spiciness, you know? Yeah, instead of a family cozy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's right like Super Mario or Super Mario Golf or whatever, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 3:Wrong, those games are great, you know, but, like you know, give me a little edge, yeah that's right, it's going to be these little six-year-old Mommy.
Speaker 2:Can you buy me MEO please? It's just like Mario and be screaming in the room.
Speaker 1:Just like the clown. What is that? What? What's his name? The clown.
Speaker 2:The one from it, pennywise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just like that. Yeah, I mean in the teaser. Yeah, he's just standing there, guy in a paper bag, brown paper bag, and just sitting there smiling All eerie-like, and they're doing all those little jump cuts that they do with horror movies, right, there's just like the scratching and then the jump cut to the face and all this other stuff. It's a very short, like five second teaser, but they just one morning woke up and said, hey, we're gonna post this, why not?
Speaker 3:I mean it's, it's, it's kind of cool. I mean they do have five nights yeah, but that's not nintendo. Five nights at freddy's not nintendo yeah, um, you're right, it's not Nintendo, but still, kids know is what I'm saying. Kids love it, they do.
Speaker 2:They love the horror.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they love the horror, Maybe like my son likes it, but he might not like the Junkers too much, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, does he. So your son? He's what Five, now right, six, five. So your son, he's what Five? Now right, six, five, six. He plays them. I know he does. Does he like so you say he doesn't like the jump scares? When he plays those Five Nights at Freddy's games, does he have fun, or is he at one point? Oh, I can't do this.
Speaker 3:No, no, he has his fun with it, like he does try.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's a little hard getting through the puzzles in some of the games, so I do it for him, so you know. But no, he usually has fun. I think he's. You think he's pretty much like, got that good ace that he's gonna be ready for a nintendo type of uh, horror game.
Speaker 3:No, um, yeah, I mean, maybe it depends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, or you can just play somehow yeah, and he watches me right, yeah, yeah, that's always a good thing. I mean I'll sit there if it's. If it's like a family friendly horror game. I think I could be into that kind of like a little a tier above what. Luigi's mansion is right, because my kid he plays that, even he's, he's three and a half and he's not scared at all. He likes luigi's mansion, right. Um. So if it's a tier above that, it's like, yeah, come on, baby's first horror game yeah, but like I don't know, would you classify luigi's mansion as?
Speaker 2:horror. I mean yeah, no, I mean it has scary vibes, right I don't know, ghost hunting like goose goosebumps horror, I guess.
Speaker 3:Goosebumps horror, I guess you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, come on now. Goosebumps is scary for kids.
Speaker 3:I remember watching that yeah legit freaky. Yeah, legit freaky for kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that used to freak me out when I was a kid. Yeah, I still remember those stories with that weird doll. The puppet, the marionette puppet, yeah, yeah, puppet, yeah, yeah, yeah. Those, those are still freaky. Maybe now I look back like man. This is stupid, but back then, back then it was it meant it was real to me yeah.
Speaker 2:So, fellas, can I take you home with, uh, one short thing and we'll finish up with one last thing here. The short thing is remember, double dragon. They're remaking that. Double dragon revive is coming back in 2025 as a beat-em-up and it's being made by arc system works.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that sparked your interest, didn't it?
Speaker 2:if you haven't seen the trailer, I implore you to check it out because it's it's interesting. It definitely looks double a. It looks double a. It doesn't look like a triple a game, uh, but it is a beat-em-up. And you know what? I've been tainted as a kid by the super nintendo double dragon game and the movie double dragon, because I'm like, right, when are they going to transform into their double dragon stuff? Because obviously in the original games they don't do that, in which I've played and I know this. But uh, yeah, no, it's another beat them up by. Our system works. I'm expecting some nice comboing in there, the double dragon revive, you said right double dragon revive coming out 2025.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you guys are interested in this and francis, you're still muted.
Speaker 1:I think it's kind of like Yakuza and Street Fighter at the same time Yakuza and Street Fighter, maybe if you're going the beat em up style, right?
Speaker 2:oh, they made them pretty boys. Yeah, yeah, I know I fully wanted. I was like, come on, name them Jimmy and Bimmy. Name them Jimmy and Bimmy. Name them Jimmy and Bimmy. But no, they didn't. But I don't know. Geese, you look like Geese Howard definitely but it looked like it. No, no, go ahead it looks kind of cool it looks cool, I fucks with it. It looks double A, though, doesn't it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it does, but arc system, that's what's interesting to me, so I want to see what that battle system looks like that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:They're going to have combos for days.
Speaker 3:Oh man cancels, Roman cancels, Kind of like Blazblue, yeah kind of.
Speaker 2:There you go. So I love this resurgence of resurgence that beat-em-ups have had. You know, we had the Shredder's Revenge, we had the Fighting Fury. What is it called? Four? I forgot what it was called Fatal Fury. 4? Is that what I'm thinking of? I don't remember. I don't either. Streets of Rage 4? Is that what I'm?
Speaker 3:thinking of? I don't remember Me too, it's a beat.
Speaker 2:It's Streets of Rage 4. Sorry, oh, streets of Rage 4.
Speaker 1:Streets of Rage. 4. I know Fatal Fury is like a fighting game.
Speaker 3:Yeah it's a fighting game.
Speaker 2:But Streets of Rage, we've had that one. There's even, like these other games, that, god, I forgot the game City.
Speaker 3:Rampage City Girls or something like that River City Ransom or something like that.
Speaker 1:River City Rampage yeah.
Speaker 2:So they have that one, and they have the one where you play as the girls, and that's all fun too. And now Double Dragon, I'm looking forward to playing this with somebody. Playing it by myself. It's like all right, you got to play with somebody, it makes it more fun, you know except the what's playing it by myself. It's like, alright, you gotta play with somebody, you gotta. It makes it more fun, you know, except the the what's it called? I'll play that. The TMNT one by myself.
Speaker 3:That one's good well, that go online with that game.
Speaker 2:I know you can, it's crazy but I did.
Speaker 3:it's crazy, like sometimes you get a full room and then they kick you for no reason, though. Oh really, like sometimes you get a full room and then they kick you for no reason, though oh really, I didn't know that I guess. A few times I'm like why you? Have it open, then there dick Get out. Yeah, I was like yeah, I put the door.
Speaker 2:I just want to help you guys. Come on, we'll play the game too. Guys, I swear I'm good. I played ninjas in time before Turtles in time. I know how to dive kick, dive kick. Turtles in Time. I know how to dive kick, dive kick. Can't Dive kick. I will say Strider's Revenge was awesome because it was just like Turtles in Time. That one is the only one that I played by myself because I loved it so much. Oh, the Power Rangers one is coming out too.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, the Power Rangers. One too Power Ranger.
Speaker 2:They got toar in there, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's good, it's going to look good, it looks pretty good.
Speaker 2:So I want to bring us home with the last thing we all know Power World. I believe we've all touched it. I know, francis, you did Zero. I believe you touched on it as well. I bought it for Steam for myself and my kids so we could play it. She loved it. So this game I don't know what the concurrence are right now, but it took over for a long time. They're still pretty up there, not nearly as high as they were initially, but Pocket Pair, sony and Anuplex forming a joint venture for developing the reach of the Palworld IP, and they basically want to expand this commercial success. And all that blah, blah, blah right world ip, and they basically want to expand this commercial success and all that blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3:Right, shit, nintendo's gonna have to do something after that if they really get like nintendo's been mad quiet about this, yep, and, and I should specify, it's sony music entertainment, not sony like playstation yeah, sony music entertainment, aniplex does anime so, and pocket pair so they're the ones for me.
Speaker 2:So it's either music and anime, right, maybe like a show, or something yeah, as an anime for power world. Well, first off, does it even interest you anymore that power world, the ip in general, guys?
Speaker 3:if you make it just like the cyberpunk and that style and like it with that gritness. Oh hell, yeah, like these Pokemon, just like fucking tearing shit apart and there's a fucking war and everybody's like fucking, like, yeah, I'll take it, give me like a gritty war story, fucking.
Speaker 2:You know it's not going to be that. You know it's not. Oh man, I know, but like what, if I mean you, you, you, let me. Let let it start by watching one of the people butcher his pal. Will his pal? What are they called pals?
Speaker 3:palman palman by the the palman oh they're your pals yeah they are. Yeah, you can, oh, and you also gotta figure that you know fucking human trafficking is in that game. Yeah, because yeah, but people yeah yeah, I have so many merchants that I don't have to go anywhere.
Speaker 2:I need go do your work, go do your thing.
Speaker 3:Come here, come here for a second. Let me, let me fucking yeah, they.
Speaker 2:They still sit there and they fight and they do all this stuff. But, francis, let me hear what are your thoughts on this music. Did it even have any music? I don't remember music for this no, it was pretty boring.
Speaker 1:It was pretty. It has a little bit of music, but it was pretty, but nothing it didn't have nothing no, no.
Speaker 2:Kingdom Hearts one opening song stuff no, no, no. Memorable mentions no, nothing. There was no simple and clean when I opened up that game.
Speaker 1:No, simple and clean.
Speaker 2:No, ikaru no no, so an anime of this. Any interest in you whatsoever for this?
Speaker 1:If it's anime, it's anime. It's kind of like digimon. You know, I feel like it's gonna be like digimon.
Speaker 2:No, no pokemon is the superior anime to to pokemon, are you guys did? You guys know this digimon is the superior anime, I guess. Come on pokemon okay pokemon has a superior game, digimon has a superior anime and yugioh they've always said, has a superior card game no, just anime for me, yugioh anime for you, not card game oh, come on man and digimon was a little bit more gritty too, because it was like stuff at stake.
Speaker 3:Yeah, some shit got down. People died in Digimon. People died. What the hell happened? Yeah, Digimon died.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they died. Sometimes you get a big ol' stinky poo in there and then it turns into a fucking angel. Yeah, yeah, they f and then it turns into a fucking angel. Yeah, yeah, they fuse together. Didn't they get to fuse with the Digimon at one point? The I don't know.
Speaker 3:I got crazy crack levels of I can't even you know begin to break down.
Speaker 2:I think they even brought back the original Digimon. Either they remade the original one or they brought back the characters from the original one. They did something. I think they brought back the characters like as original one.
Speaker 3:They did something with that. I think they brought back the characters like as adults, right kind of like a Rugrats skull grown up situation maybe.
Speaker 2:I just know that there is something out there and I meant to check it out and I completely forgot. But I'm probably going to do that tonight, maybe. Yeah, it sounds good, digimon. I just don't like.
Speaker 1:I just don't like Power World being like a different IP and then you can't carry your whatever you have to a different server. I don't like that server type.
Speaker 2:I mean you know what. To be fair, it's not even the full release yet.
Speaker 3:to this day, I feel like it's not even no, it's still like alpha or whatever. It's still early.
Speaker 2:It's not full release yet, so we've been playing the beta of the game pretty much this whole time yeah, yeah, that's what everybody likes to do.
Speaker 3:Valheim is like that, I think valheim is still like yeah, I think that one still is too.
Speaker 2:There's stuff out there. I mean I played and that has an expansion, that has a dlc to it. I know, so does pal world.
Speaker 2:They just keep releasing stuff, and I did the um, oh my god, what is it? Hades 2. I got the early release, early access. Yeah, early access for that, and that's pretty good too, but a nice time because I'm all right, there's no more story stuff going on, but it's hades 2, it's fun yeah, you only have access like the first five floors or something like that, or whatever they the levels are oh no, it feels pretty complete, but it just you get to a certain point where you don't feel like it's progressing anymore.
Speaker 3:Story so much I guess I don't know, you're just running at that point it kind of.
Speaker 2:Kind of. Obviously, you know it could just be I'm not doing what needs to be done, but yeah, kind of, because I have to beat this one guy, basically, and then that will show me which I haven't been able to do yet. So there's that, yeah. So it feels like we're pretty much all on the same page with the Power World. We're kind of like, eh, it's not going to take down Pokemon.
Speaker 3:No, but if it gets bigger, pokemon might take it out. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You get to have a game, but then, once Nintendo sees this, what Music and anime. Slow your roll, bitch Slow your roll, we ain't saying nothing. You sitting out there doing all this. We ain't saying nothing, but this whole this movie, animes and music.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, no, no, no way, no way.
Speaker 2:Well, folks, I think that brings us to the end of our show, right, boys? So before we head out, I just want to say thank you for listening, thank you for coming back. We hope that you do come back next time. Take a listen, maybe leave us a comment. There's a new thing, by the way, that I that I wanted to mention.
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Speaker 1:Anything you, boys want to say before we head out Happy gaming Picture sound Next time, next time, but until next time, gg's Laters.
Speaker 2:Gg's Bye.